Death Sentence of Political Prisoner Manouchehr Fallah Reaffirmed by Rasht Revolutionary Court
21-May-2026
Category: Death Sentence
20 May 2026
News Group: Issuance of Death Sentence –
Breathing in Confinement: Manouchehr Fallah, a political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, has once again been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news outlet of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, following the annulment of the previous ruling and the referral of Manouchehr Fallah’s case by the Supreme Court for retrial, Branch One of the Rasht Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ahmad Darvish-Goftar, re-examined the case and reaffirmed and reissued his death sentence in its entirety.
Manouchehr Fallah, aged 36, was arrested in Rasht on 17 June 2023. He had previously been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court on charges of “enmity against God (moharebeh) through actions against national security” and “membership in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation.”
In 2024, after the death sentence was issued, Mr Fallah wrote a letter from prison addressed to his daughter in which he rejected the allegations against him and stated in his defence:
“They have imprisoned me for a crime I did not commit. I have neither violated anyone’s rights, nor looted wealth, nor taken bread from people’s tables. I have neither stolen oil rigs nor sat in judgement to issue unjust rulings. My only ‘crime’ has been protesting poverty, inequality, and injustice; refusing to remain silent in the face of all this oppression. Yet throughout this path, I have harmed no one and have not resorted to violence.”